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[OneScrewLoose]

It seems that this supp is actually helping with my hiatal hernia, like it helped another user. Strange, but whatever works. Do you guys recommend any particular brands?

[VespeneGas]

Jarrow: recommended.

Vitamin Shoppe: not recommended.

Don't judge me on the latter, I was young and foolish.

[GoodFellas]

Now Foods!

Btw, what's wrong with "vitamin shoppe"?

[renwosing]

iherb.

[Lufega]

How exactly is it helping you? I would have never guessed. I want to buy some for my GF who also has a HH. I've used Jarrow sensoril before.

[ajnast4r]

Now Foods!

Btw, what's wrong with "vitamin shoppe"?

unbranded products are low quality

[OneScrewLoose]

It seems to help close it. Not as well as I'd like, or as well as the reglan/metocloprimide I was taking, but does help.

[smithx]

It seems to help close it. Not as well as I'd like, or as well as the reglan/metocloprimide I was taking, but does help.

You may be interested in this reference:

Effect of Asparagus racemosus (Shatavari) on gastric emptying time in normal healthy volunteers.
Dalvi SS, Nadkarni PM, Gupta KC.
Department of Pharmacology, Seth G. S. Medical College, Bombay, Maharashtra.

Asparagus racemosus (Shatavari) is used in Ayurveda for dyspepsia (amlapitta) and as a galactogogue. It was hence compared with a modern drug, metoclopramide, which is used in dyspepsia to reduce gastric emptying time. Gastric emptying half- time (GE t1/2) was studied in 8 healthy male volunteers using a cross-over design. The basal GE t1/2 in volunteers was 159.9 +/- 45.9 min (mean +/- SD) which was reduced to 101 +/- 40.8 min by Shatavari (p less than 0.001) and to 85.3 +/- 21.9 by metoclopramide (p less than 0.001). Metoclopramide and Shatavari did not differ significantly in their effects.

PMID: 2097375 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
http://www.ncbi.nlm..../pubmed/2097375

Metoclopramide has a lot of negative side-effects, shatavari has basically none.

[pycnogenol]

Nature's Answer brand.

Nature's Answer, Ashwagandha Root, Alcohol-Free, 2 fl oz (60 ml)

http://www.iherb.com...60-ml/5249?at=1

Edited by pycnogenol, 06 May 2009 - 03:26 PM.

[imarobot]

I take Jarrow.

[OneScrewLoose]

It seems to help close it. Not as well as I'd like, or as well as the reglan/metocloprimide I was taking, but does help.

You may be interested in this reference:

Effect of Asparagus racemosus (Shatavari) on gastric emptying time in normal healthy volunteers.
Dalvi SS, Nadkarni PM, Gupta KC.
Department of Pharmacology, Seth G. S. Medical College, Bombay, Maharashtra.

Asparagus racemosus (Shatavari) is used in Ayurveda for dyspepsia (amlapitta) and as a galactogogue. It was hence compared with a modern drug, metoclopramide, which is used in dyspepsia to reduce gastric emptying time. Gastric emptying half- time (GE t1/2) was studied in 8 healthy male volunteers using a cross-over design. The basal GE t1/2 in volunteers was 159.9 +/- 45.9 min (mean +/- SD) which was reduced to 101 +/- 40.8 min by Shatavari (p less than 0.001) and to 85.3 +/- 21.9 by metoclopramide (p less than 0.001). Metoclopramide and Shatavari did not differ significantly in their effects.

PMID: 2097375 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
http://www.ncbi.nlm..../pubmed/2097375

Metoclopramide has a lot of negative side-effects, shatavari has basically none.

Very interested, but this is for gastric emptying, not sure if it will close my Lower Esophogeal Sphincter, but worth a shot. A quick search into it showed that this is, in ayurvedic medicine, something for women. What's the reason for that? Any hormonal effects?

[hamishm00]

I have been on the Solgar Ashwagandha Root Extract

[smithx]

Very interested, but this is for gastric emptying, not sure if it will close my Lower Esophogeal Sphincter, but worth a shot. A quick search into it showed that this is, in ayurvedic medicine, something for women. What's the reason for that? Any hormonal effects?

I don't know, but if it has similar effects to that drug in one respect it MAY have similar effects in others.

Not sure about the other effects. I was using it to control heartburn, but then I found triphala (another ayurvedic) and it completely cured me in about 8 weeks (Triphala Gold, 2 pills twice a day).

[OneScrewLoose]

Very interested, but this is for gastric emptying, not sure if it will close my Lower Esophogeal Sphincter, but worth a shot. A quick search into it showed that this is, in ayurvedic medicine, something for women. What's the reason for that? Any hormonal effects?

I don't know, but if it has similar effects to that drug in one respect it MAY have similar effects in others.

Not sure about the other effects. I was using it to control heartburn, but then I found triphala (another ayurvedic) and it completely cured me in about 8 weeks (Triphala Gold, 2 pills twice a day).

Buy heartburn, do you mean acid reflux?

[smithx]

Very interested, but this is for gastric emptying, not sure if it will close my Lower Esophogeal Sphincter, but worth a shot. A quick search into it showed that this is, in ayurvedic medicine, something for women. What's the reason for that? Any hormonal effects?

I don't know, but if it has similar effects to that drug in one respect it MAY have similar effects in others.

Not sure about the other effects. I was using it to control heartburn, but then I found triphala (another ayurvedic) and it completely cured me in about 8 weeks (Triphala Gold, 2 pills twice a day).

Buy heartburn, do you mean acid reflux?

Yes, triphala basically eliminated acid reflux for me.

Quite amazing!

Edited by smithx, 08 May 2009 - 02:56 AM.

[OneScrewLoose]

I'll try the Triphala first. Anyone have any reason why Shatavari is considered for women?